[PATCH 2/2] riscv: Fix R_RISCV_IRELATIVE overwrite and order issues

Hau Hsu hau.hsu@sifive.com
Fri May 17 02:32:15 GMT 2024


Let me run more toolchain integrated tests.
Thanks!

Hau



> On May 16, 2024, at 4:28 PM, Nelson Chu <nelson@rivosinc.com> wrote:
> 
> I think the quite easy solution is - don't use riscv_elf_append_rela to emit dynamic IRELATIVE for R_RISCV_32/64 into iplt section.  Seems like commit 51a8a7c2e3cc only handles the finish_dynamic_symbol, but forgot to apply a similar fix in the relocate_section.
> 
> https://github.com/bminor/binutils-gdb/blob/master/bfd/elfnn-riscv.c#L2408
> diff --git a/bfd/elfnn-riscv.c b/bfd/elfnn-riscv.c
> index 604f6de4511..dca446c0495 100644
> --- a/bfd/elfnn-riscv.c
> +++ b/bfd/elfnn-riscv.c
> @@ -2399,13 +2399,16 @@ riscv_elf_relocate_section (bfd *output_bfd,
>                        2. .rela.got section in dynamic executable.
>                        3. .rela.iplt section in static executable.  */
>                     if (bfd_link_pic (info))
> -                     sreloc = htab->elf.irelifunc;
> +                     riscv_elf_append_rela (output_bfd, htab->elf.irelifunc, &outrel);
>                     else if (htab->elf.splt != NULL)
> -                     sreloc = htab->elf.srelgot;
> +                     riscv_elf_append_rela (output_bfd, htab->elf.srelgot, &outrel);
>                     else
> -                     sreloc = htab->elf.irelplt;
> -
> -                   riscv_elf_append_rela (output_bfd, sreloc, &outrel);
> +                     {
> +                       const struct elf_backend_data *bed = get_elf_backend_data (output_bfd);
> +                       bfd_vma iplt_idx = htab->last_iplt_index--;
> +                       bfd_byte *loc = htab->elf.irelplt->contents + iplt_idx * sizeof (ElfNN_External_Rela);
> +                       bed->s->swap_reloca_out (output_bfd, &outrel, loc);
> +                     }
> 
>                     /* If this reloc is against an external symbol, we
>                        do not want to fiddle with the addend.  Otherwise,
> 
> The above changes seem to fix the testcase you provided, but without testing fully riscv-gnu-toolchain regressions.
> Or we should find a way to handle reloc_index for iplt, and all use riscv_elf_append_rela to emit the dynamic relocation.
> 
> Nelson
> 
> On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 3:30 PM Hau Hsu <hau.hsu@sifive.com <mailto:hau.hsu@sifive.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On May 16, 2024, at 3:07 PM, Nelson Chu <nelson@rivosinc.com <mailto:nelson@rivosinc.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 2:16 PM Hau Hsu <hau.hsu@sifive.com <mailto:hau.hsu@sifive.com>> wrote:
>>>> Hi Nelson,
>>>> 
>>>> Sorry for the late reply.
>>>> 
>>>>> On May 8, 2024, at 9:00 AM, Nelson Chu <nelson@rivosinc.com <mailto:nelson@rivosinc.com>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Can you provide the testcase to show the case which I mentioned in the pr13302?  Which is that an ifunc with a dynamic jump slot calls another ifunc, and are not in the rel.dyn. 
>>>> I am not quite sure what's the issue you mentioned in PR13302.
>>>> You mean the order issue of cause by one ifunc (generates JUMP_SLOT[32|64]) calls another JUMP_SLOT[32|64] ifunc?
>>>> 
>>>>> Since according to the testcase below, it seems no requirement to apply this fix though.
>>>> The new test case uses two methods to call ifuncs:
>>>> 1. Through a normal function call: PLT + GOT
>>>> 2. Through a global function pointer: GOT only
>>>> 
>>>> Without the fix, the relocation of the first method overwrites the second's.
>>>> The relocation section of my test case would be:
>>>> 
>>>> Relocation section '.rela.plt' at offset 0x94 contains 2 entries:
>>>>  Offset     Info    Type                Sym. Value  Symbol's Name + Addend
>>>> 000110dc  0000003a R_RISCV_IRELATIVE                 100c0
>>>> 00000000  00000000 R_RISCV_NONE                      0
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> With the fix, it becomes
>>>> 
>>>> Relocation section '.rela.plt' at offset 0x94 contains 2 entries:
>>>>  Offset     Info    Type                Sym. Value  Symbol's Name + Addend
>>>> 000110e0  0000003a R_RISCV_IRELATIVE                 100c0
>>>> 000110dc  0000003a R_RISCV_IRELATIVE                 100c0
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> So it seems like the overwrite problem, not the order problem we were discussing in the pr13302...
>> 
>> Yes. Sorry that I didn't explain the whole story well.
>> 
>> This PR is originally to fix the overwrite problem, as my commit message says: 
>> > This commit resolved two issues: 
>> > 1. When an ifunc is referenced by a pointer, the relocation of
>> >   the pointer in .rela.plt would be overwritten by normal ifunc call.
>> We found the issue when building glibc testbench statically.
>> 
>> To fix this issue, I sent a PR (https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2023-July/128485.html) about a year ago. 
>> The PR use the method smilier to your previous commit, i.e.
>> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=51a8a7c2e3cc0730831963651a55d23d1fae624d
>> Then you suggested to check whether the relocation order is correct.
>> After that I checked the X86 implementation, I sent this PR.
>> 
>>>  
>>>>>> --- /dev/null
>>>>>> +++ b/ld/testsuite/ld-riscv-elf/ifunc-macro.s
>>>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
>>>>>> +/* Define macros to handle similar behaviors for rv32/rv64.
>>>>>> +   Assumes macro "__64_bit__" defined for rv64.
>>>>>> +   The macro is specifically defined for ifunc tests in ld-riscv-elf.exp. */
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +.macro PTR_DATA name
>>>>>> +.ifdef __64_bit__
>>>>>> +       .quad   \name
>>>>>> +.else
>>>>>> +       .long   \name
>>>>>> +.endif
>>>>>> +.endm
>>>>>> +
>>>>>> +.macro LOAD rd, rs, offset
>>>>>> +.ifdef __64_bit__
>>>>>> +       ld      \rd, \offset (\rs)
>>>>>> +.else
>>>>>> +       lw      \rd, \offset (\rs)
>>>>>> +.endif
>>>>>> +.endm
>>> 
>>> Btw, can we not use these macroes?
>> 
>> No problem. I just want to avoid similar codes in the ifunc tests.
>> 
>>> 
>>> Nelson
>> 

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